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News >  Idaho

Guardian: Few is Spokane’s only hope

In a column for The Guardian, Cody Delistraty says Coach Mark Few of the Gonzaga Bulldogs may be the main source of hope for struggling Spokane. Delistraty goes on to say that Spokane ranked as this country's 22nd most dangerous city, up from 26th the year before.
News >  Idaho

The forgotten bulbs

Below ground, as we wait for spring, the Easter lily is making preparations to burst forth to please us and enjoy the sun. Remember The Bard celebrates the pending arrival of this beautiful flower.
News >  Idaho

Brannon: Poor turnout

County Clerk Jim Brannon tells Huckleberries that the turnout for the various supplemental levy elections and the Coeur d'Alene School District bond election is poor. "Maybe it's the weather or the single issue on most ballots, but the turnout has been light," Brannon said. Less than 10 had voted by noon in 2 Post Falls precincts.
News >  Idaho

Wallace miner responds to Hecla CEO

Wallace miner Rick Norman responds to a full-page newspaper ad to CEO Phil Baker of Hecla Mining Co: "Your ad seems to suggest that we are afraid of change. Mining IS change Sir, especially in an old and enduring mine like the Lucky Friday."
News >  Idaho

Election Day roundup

Huckleberries'll use this thread to keep track of voting and related issues today for supplemental levy and bond elections today. Sounds as though turnout is very low ...
News >  Idaho

Gonzaga tops in classroom, too

In a front-page column today, Editor Rob Curley/SR comments to brainiacs playing for Gonzaga: "The Zags are likely the smartest team to be a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. In today’s sabermetric world that measures minutiae, the numbers show that these Bulldogs have the Big Brains."
News >  Idaho

AM Scanner Traffic — 3.14.17

Scanner Traffic for Tuesday AM (16 items & counting) includes attempt by local police to locate 24YO who is in black Subaru Legacy and threatening suicide by cop. Also includes the KCSO recent crimes log.
News >  Idaho

Barbieri dodges talk re: records bill

"Rep. Vito Barbieri didn’t want to talk about his plan to change Idaho’s public records law to shield most state lawmakers’ communications from public disclosure," writes Maureen Dolan/Press. "Ironically, it took a public records request for the Dalton Gardens Republican’s email messages to find out what he was thinking."
News >  Idaho

Souza defends failed bill

Sen. Mary Souza, R-Coeur d’Alene, says her now-pulled school elections bill, SB 1003a, wasn’t related to the 2013 fight for control of the Coeur d’Alene school board, and was a “good bill for good reasons.” If its such a good bill, Huckleberries wonders whether Souza sought input from the current Coeur d'Alene trustees?
News >  Idaho

AM Headlines — 3.14.17

AM Headlines: Lucky Friday miners strike/Press, Pease family extends thanks/Press, Notary law update sails through panel/EOBoise, Senate backs higher passing speeds/EOBoise, Gonzaga women to face Oklahoma in NCAAs/SR, Vestal: GOP health care plan hurts region's poor/SR ...
News >  Idaho

Souza pulls trustee election bill

I'd like to think that Sen. Mary Souza came to her senses re: her attempt to transform nonpartisan school trustee elections into partisan ones. But I suspect that she realized that her bill to move trustee elections to general elections wasn't going anywhere. She pulled her bill moments ago.
News >  Idaho

Quotable Quote

You can find an interesting nugget toward the tail end of Betsy Russell's report on Sen. Mary Souza's attempt to move school trustee elections. Former trustee Jim Hightower sent a message to every member of Kootenai County's legislative delegation threatening to oppose them in the next election if they didn't support Souza's bill.
News >  Idaho

Souza’s bill all about local fight

As you know, Sen. Mary Souza again is trying to move school elections from the spring in off years to the general election in even years. She claims that the move is to encourage voter turnout. But others suspect that Souza is trying to soothe the feathers of former Hard Right trustees who resigned or were voted out of office.
News >  Idaho

Slice: Air horn quiets barking dog

In his Slice column today, Paul Turner begins by mentioning a reader who finally figured out how to quiet her barking dog -- an air horn. The reader had tried everything, including electronic devices and asking the neighbor to put a muzzle on the barking dog. The air horn did the trick.
News >  Idaho

Rocky: Lake CdA not best thing in Idaho

Seems Idaho Statesman columnist Rocky Barker isn't all that impressed with Lake Coeur d'Alene. He took exception recently to a 93-word review by the Thrillist, a New York website that picked Lake Coeur d'Alene as "the best damn thing" about Idaho. Barker, in fact, goes on to say Lake Coeur d'Alene isn't even the best lake in North Idaho.
News >  Idaho

He should have begun ‘Hey, Stupid’

Freshman state Sen. Dan Foreman of Moscow began a recent letter to constituents: “You must understand something. I do represent my entire district. But I am under no obligation to do what you want. Your opinion represents (the) minority view in district five.” Columnist Chuck Malloy/Idaho Business Weekly comments ...
News >  Idaho

Poll: Zags will make Final 4

In Monday's poll, a plurality of Hucks Nation said that top-seeded Gonzaga will make it to the Final 4 in the NCAA Tournament this year. Today's Poll: If forced to choose, who would you pick to represent you -- Vito Barbieri or Heather Scott?
News >  Idaho

Northern Quest duo earn celebrity

You may not know their names but you know their faces. Actors Mark Robbins and Brooke Stocker have become two of the most recognizable faces in the Inland Northwest as a result of their quirky Northern Quest commercial. Columnist Doug Clark/SR writes about them today.
News >  Idaho

Huckleberries: Pacific NW swell today, it was better 55 years ago

Fifty-five years ago, senior editor Leonard Gross of Look magazine launched a 50-page spread with this sentence: “The one great mystery of the Pacific Northwest is why all of us aren’t living there.” In today's Huckleberries column, we revisit what the Pacific Northwest was like 55 years ago.
News >  Idaho

School districts vote on levies/bonds

Polls for supplemental levy proposals in the Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls, Lakeland, Kootenai and Plummer-Worley school districts will be open today from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Coeur d'Alene is also floating a special general obligation bond to voters, while Lakeland is also proposing a plant facilities levy.
Opinion >  Column

Huckleberries: Pacific Northwest is swell now, but it was even better 55 years ago

Fifty-five years ago, senior editor Leonard Gross of Look magazine launched a 50-page spread about this region with the sentence: “The one great mystery of the Pacific Northwest is why all of us aren’t living there.” At that time, only 5.5 million people lived in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana). Back then, Northwesterners had an attitude toward newcomers that's much the same today: Let’s lock them out.
News >  Idaho

Wild Card/Monday — 3.13.17

We may have finally broken the back of Old Man Winter. Last week, almost overnight, we exchanged graupel for liquid sunshine. Which is OK. I was able to get into the far corner of my yard to bust up some old rounds to feed my wood stove for a few more weeks. My wife calls this shoulder season "springer" -- part winter, part spring.